Mara Blumenfeld

Mara Blumenfeld

(she/her/hers)

Costume Designer, Love’s Labor’s Lost

In 11 seasons at OSF: The Odyssey, Timon of Athens, Guys and Dolls, The White Snake, Pride and Prejudice, Tartuffe, The Importance of Being Earnest, Richard III, Oedipus Complex, Present Laughter, Idiot’s Delight

Other theatres: Broadway: Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater); Metamorphoses, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage Theatre); Lookingglass Alice (New Victory Theater); Homebody/Kabul (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Regional: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre, McCarter Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre. 

International: Evita, Camelot (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada); Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse, London); Galileo Galilei (Barbican Centre, London); Carmen (K-Ballet, Tokyo). 

Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala); Rusalka and La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera); Oklahoma!, The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago). 

Other credits: Ensemble member, Lookingglass Theatre Company. 

Awards: Four Joseph Jefferson Awards for Costume Design; 2012 Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. 

Education: BS, Northwestern University.